#114- Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life This week, Scott and Karl discuss Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.  As the companion volume to 12 Rules for Life, Peterson's new book offers "further guidance on the perilous path of modern life." While Scott and Karl agree these are decent, sensible rules for life, [...]

#25 - Les Paul: The Father of Multitrack Recording Scott, Karl, and Trent introduce us to the genius of Les Paul. Best known for the solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul was a prolific inventor and tinkerer. He also developed many of the techniques that formed the backbone of modern music recording, including multitracking, overdubbing, and [...]

#113- Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death Are we all in despair, whether we know it or not? Scott and Karl discuss S¢ren Kierkegaard’s cheerful little book, The Sickness Unto Death. Published in 1849, Kierkegaard outlines his theory of the self in relation to his categories of despair, wherein despair is a "disease" of the self. For Kierkegaard, [...]

#112- Mishima's Sun and Steel, with Matt Reynolds (Barbell Logic) This week, Scott and Karl are joined by special guest Matt Reynolds to discuss Yukio Mishima's book, Sun and Steel. Born into a samurai family, Mishima died by his own hand in 1970, committing seppuku or ritual suicide. While controversial, Mishima is considered one of the [...]

#24- Pop Pathos Have you ever thought about what makes a pop song tick? This week, Scott, Karl, and Trent analyze the lyrics in some of the biggest pop hits from different eras of American music. The trio discusses the various levels a pop song can operate on. Trent says, "There are songs that have a [...]

#111- Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Small Is Beautiful is economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization. Scott says, "These problems are going to get a lot [...]

#110- H.G. Wells’s The New World Order Part 2 In the second episode of this two-part series, Scott and Karl finish discussing The New World Order by H.G. Wells. Scott says, "There are people that write things that I don't agree with but they hang together and they are internally consistent. Wells is really not." The duo [...]

#23- Instruments of the Orchestra This week, Scott, Karl, and Trent talk about the different instruments of the orchestra. A Symphony Orchestra is defined as a large ensemble composed of wind, string, brass, and percussion instruments and organized to perform classical music. Karl says, "It's one thing to have a melody, but really that's not [...]

#109- H.G. Wells's The New World Order Part 1 In the first episode of this two-part series, Scott and Karl begin discussing The New World Order by H.G. Wells. Published in January 1940, Wells’s motivation for writing The New World Order was based upon the outbreak of World War II. He proposes a framework of international functionalism that he believes could [...]

#108- The King of Satire Fantasy: Terry Pratchett's Going Postal This week, Scott and Karl read Going Postal by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 33rd book in his Discworld series. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book featuring the character Moist von Lipwig. Moist is a con artist and a [...]